World: r3wp

If the code is being kept mostly private perhaps at some stage it 
will be developed further as a comercial product, in which case it 
would seem usefull if we as test users record a list of bugs & useability 
suggestions in a structured way perhaps?

[fourth time of trying to post this]: thanks for the analysis of 
the connection problems, Mike.

[third repost]: There's a good list of bugs and suggestions starting 
here:
http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?post=r3wp151x457

hehe .. this was my suggestion in 2005 "security - stop unauthorised 
users from removing/renaming groups"

But I think the most important bug to be fixed is to stop losing 
messages.  Eg. create a buffer to store the outgoing message.

As a test I have both the r3-alpha world, the r2-beta world and this 
one open.  I got dropped multiple times from this one but the other 
worlds were  fine during this.

So, it looks to be world specific ...

Sunanda, thanks for the link. I had a good read of that and was surprised 
to not find any requests for keyboard shortcuts, paticularly the 
use of the arrow keys to scroll lists & text.. That would be my top 
request I think.

I wonder if the problem comes from people with a bad connection (like 
me).

Strangly, each time my connection to internet makes a fuss, i can 
see complaints on Altme.
o_o'

And i'm only connected to that world

The web is a flutter with how slow FaceBook is too...

And for the exact time frame we have seen it heere too....hmmmm...

maybe this server needs to be reset or something.

Perhaps the whole Internet really was busy?  AltME's been telling 
it like it is...

messenger hasn't been giving me a hard time at all.  neither has 
google chat.

Just Cheyenne

I've had a couple of dropped posts too, the past few days.

Just to report that I also have problems with altme in last days 
"internet busy.."

Maybe it's the Google's Wave which makes Internet busy.. updating 
conversations of all the planet in real time.)

is it possible to check if the server is overloaded? are there problems 
with other worlds?

I just checked.. r3-alpha world is affected as well. (probably same 
machine)

It already happened in the past and IIRC someone called Carl and 
he restarted servers. I contacted him privately yesterday in R3 Chat. 
No reply so far, maybe RT is on vacation :-)

graham: LOL  its behaving now.

wasn't there an FTP group here before?

you're thinking of previous worlds

I think there was once, and also a FTPgadget channel

some code supplied from anton that I was about to use.... has disapeared... 
I'm pretty sure in was in a group called ftp

I did a full search in altme and didn't find it.

nope ... discussions I had with anton this spring.

btw, IMHO,  the current altme droppings aren't due to networking 
speed/internet woes ... right now, when I post I get a turnaround 
well below half a second.

It almost feels instantaneous.  still I must relog every so often, 
If I want to be syncing again.  the server just stops responding 
after a few minutes.  :-(

I think it's the server playing up ... not network issues per se

still playing up today ...

17,000 posts in this world so far already this year, and only 18,000 
for the whole of last year.

Must be the effect of R3

NB: with regards to Prefixing group names... just today... had the 
groups been prefixed, I would have found a post I have been looking 
for the better part of an hour... just cause I'd have noticed the 
group name next to network related groups... I actually looked at 
the name and never *clicked* it was a network group...  ' : - /

Use the search tool ... it's your friend

I did... 3 different searches... but didn't get to any thing that 
pointed to that post...

just fell in between the cracks.

I searched for all posts by Anton with the word "progress" since 
the beginning of this year

as always... Carl passes by like a breeze hehehe

wow.. that didn't drop!   ;-)

Graham: <17,000 posts in this world so far already this year>

That's [web-public] posts. Actual world size is around twice that 
(*), though I don't have a count of posts-by -year.


(*) No one of us can know the precise world size --- we do not all 
see the private groups; nor do we all see the PMs between everyone.

I also have CDR for change-dir+to-rebol-file.

Dang, wrong group. :-\

I am really happy that it seems "internet busy" thing is gone .. 
I missed this place last days and it wasn't possible to be efectively 
here either

am I the only one getting sporadic Altme world outages?

no

Saw an outage about 30 minutes ago.....Not sure when it started.

CommonTag has a press release

http://www.prweb.com/releases/CommonTag/2009/prweb2522914.htm